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About

Brenda Brueggemann, Aetna Chair of Writing

Established in the 1980s, the Aetna Chair of Writing draws from the Aetna Life and Casualty Foundation’s Aetna Endowment to initiate, enhance, and otherwise further University of Connecticut writing programs. Aetna funds support many initiatives, including:

The Writing Center

The Connecticut Writing Project

First-Year Writing’s Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing

Long River Review, the university’s literary journal

Poetic Journeys, an on-campus literary poster project

Aetna writers-in-residence, who give readings and work with students in one-on-one tutorials